Posts Tagged ‘nodejs’

Bryan Cantrill (VP of Engineering at Joyent) talks about the challenges of operating Node.js in real production environments and the experiences he had working with it at Joyent. He also talks about DTrace, SmartOS, V8 and compares with other platforms.

Guillermo Rauch, creator of SocketIO talks about how it delivers HTML5 WebSocket functionality in a cross-browser fashion. He also talks about effective development with Node.js and JavaScript in general.

NodeBits is a site dedicated to keeping the NodeJS spirit of innovation and creativity alive. This is done by providing a constant stream of ideas and sample projects. Articles here are designed to help you, the developer, to feel confident and enjoy programming with node.

The topic of coroutines or fibers, or continuations for JavaScript comes up from time to time, so I figured I’d write down my thoughts on the matter. I admit to having a soft spot for crazy control-flow features like continuations, but they’re unlikely ever to make it into ECMAScript. With good reason.

The node community has seen a lot of discussion recently about managing dependencies with npm. In particular, people are debating the merits of using npm for deploying production applications. Mikeal Rogers’s post, about checking modules dependencies into version control, sparked much of the discussion. Everyone has opinions, and certainly everyone’s deployment concerns are different. I thought it might help folks to give some info about Yammer’s experience.